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Is Kettle Cooked Texas Style Barbecue Chips ultra-processed?

Potato crisps Sold in the United States

Pack of Kettle Cooked Texas Style Barbecue Chips

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 38 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed potato crisps

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

potatoes, sunflower seed, canola oil, style barbecue sauce seasoning (cane sugar, sea salt, brown cane sugar, corn maltodextrin, tomato, garlic, onion, natural flavor, gum arabic, red chili, yeast extract, citric acid, mustard (distilled white vinegar, mustard seed, salt, turmeric powder, paprika, spice, garlic), modified cornstarch, red pepper sauce powder (distilled white vinegar, red pepper, salt, corn maltodextrin), vinegar, oleoresin of paprika, cinnamon, black pepper, rosemary extract), DISTRIBU diet, 2‚0 general nutrition advice, texas

Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E330 Citric acid , E392 Extracts of rosemary , E414 Acacia gum

As written on the pack

POTATOES, SUNFLOWER SEED AND/OR EXPELLER PRESSED CANOLA OIL, STYLE BARBECUE SAUCE SEASONING (CANE SUGAR, SEA SALT, BROWN CANE SUGAR, ORGANIC CORN MALTODEXTRIN, TOMATO POWDER, GARLIC POWDER, ONION POWDER, NATURAL FLAVOR, GUM ARABIC, RED CHILI POWDER, YEAST EXTRACT, CITRIC ACID, MUSTARD [DISTILLED WHITE VINEGAR, MUSTARD SEED, SALT, TURMERIC POWDER, PAPRIKA, SPICE, GARLIC POWDER], MODIFIED CORNSTARCH, RED PEPPER SAUCE POWDER [DISTILLED WHITE VINEGAR, RED PEPPER, SALT, ORGANIC CORN MALTODEXTRIN], VINEGAR, OLEORESIN OF PAPRIKA, GROUND CINNAMON, GROUND BLACK PEPPER, ROSEMARY EXTRACT). DISTRIBU diet. 2,0 general nutrition advice. TEXAS

What makes it ultra-processed

Cosmetic additives

Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • E414 Acacia gum Gum arabic (acacia gum) is the hardened sap of acacia trees, used to stabilise flavour emulsions in soft drinks and to coat sweets.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
4 ingredients that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Salty snacks Products in the category "Salty snacks" are at least group 3.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 622 potato crisps

From least to most processed, this one ranks 541st. 66% of the potato crisps here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 622 potato crisps, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0099482497989, last edited 24 December 2023), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
  • NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.